It was recently brought to my attention that I had promised to post photos of my husband and I in Hamlet.  I don’t often have a hard time sharing what is going on in my dancing life, but I do have a hard time talking about myself.  Often we are our own worst critics and in an artform that we can never perfect we can always find room for improvement and things to “nit pick”.  This is probably why I have been delaying posting these, but here they are!

I think for both my husband and I, Hamlet is the highlight of our career, to date.  This might sound cheesy, but truly all the blood, sweat, and tears during the years of training, trying to get a job, and trying to find my place within that job were all worth it in this singular fleeting moment.  Never before have I felt so complete as a dancer and as an artist.  The fact that I got to share that experience with my husband was the icing on the cake.

Now it’s over, and we’ve moved on to the next thing.  But I’m choosing to ride this high for a while….

(all the performance photos are thanks to Tony Spielberg!!)

Paul and I in our Act I Pas de Deux

Paul, Act I Scene 3

Paul and I, Act I Scene 5

Me, Paul, and Chris Swaim, Act I Scene 5

My drowning scene at the end of Act I

Paul with Aara Krumpe as Gertrude

Paul and Johnstuart Winchell as Laertes at the end of Act II

Paul and I post-performance with the people that make it all happen: Executive Director Cookie Ruiz and Artistic Director Stephen Mills

Paul and I with the other people that make it all happen: our familes post-performance with the Long Center in the background.